Improvement in corn-plows



UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

DANIEL WILDE, OF WASHINGTON, "IOVA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-PLOWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 54,800, dated May 15, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL VVILDE, of Washington, in the State of Iowa, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Corn-Flows; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters and marks thereon.

Of the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a top view of a corn-plow having myirnprovement as a part thereof, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same.

In each of these figures where like parts are shown like letters and inarks are used to indicate the parts.

The axle a of this corn-plow, a short distance from the inner end of the hubs Z1 of the wheels c, has an inclination upward, so that more room is given for the movements of the parts of the plow below than it the axle was, as is usually the case, in a horizontal line with the center of the hub.

To the axle are attached two upright rests, d, having notched plates e for the adjustment of the inner ends ofthe levers j', which levers have plates g, for tting into the notches of the plates c, and thus holding up the inner ends of the levers. These levers f are at their front ends so pivoted to the pole or tongue h as to have. play, allowing of t-he upward and downward movements of the levers.

To the levers f are connected, by chains and hooksj, rods k, which, at their lower ends, are affixed to the treaders l, the treaders being held at their forward ends by hooks and eyes to the under side ofthe plow-beams m; Then plowing these treaders will bear against the blocks n, lying between the plow-beams m and the shovel-stakes o. This arrangement of the levers j' with the rods k and upright rests d allows of the adjustment of the levers to the point desired for operating upon the plowbeams by the foot and for elevating them close up to the recessed surface of the axle whenever this may be required.

The shovel-stakes o are pivoted at their upper ends by a pin passing through the blocks a and the plow-beam, and have a slot, g, in them through which the bar r' passes, so that the stakes may be adjusted on the bar and the shovels be set lower or higher for deep or shallow plowing, and so, also7 that the inside shovels can he set to plow the same depth as the outside shovels, or deeper or shallower, as may be wished.

The handles s, for managing the plow-beams by hand, are afxed to the beams, as indicated by the drawings. A shackle or jointed bar, t, passes froml one handle to the other, so constructed as to be readily lengthened or shortened, bringing the plow-beams and shovels nearer to or farther olf from each other, to allow of' closer or wider plowing, and admitting ofthe raising or lowering of the one beam and its shovels to a certain degree and extent independent of' the other beam and shovels. The beams at their front ends are so construeted and united to the front cross-bar, a, as to permit considerable play, the front ends bein g divided or havin ga space between plates t for a pin or rod, w, which is secured at the upper end to the cross-bar u, and at the lower end being headed to hold up the end ofthe beams.

The seederis attached to the plow by hingestraps x, aflixed to the seeder y at their lower ends, and by an eye at their upper ends, through which a pin .c passes, which pin also passes through the end plates, t, of the beams in. This manner of afxing the seeder allows ot' its horizontal adjustment by means of the connecting-bar z and the pin g on the pole or tongue.

The feeding part of the seeder is operated by the shaft pulley w', chain or cord t', and pulley u on the axle of the main wheels.

What I claim as new, and desire` to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Adjusting the shovel-stakes and shovels by means of the slots q and bars r, as and for the purposes herein recited.

2. In combination with the shackle-bar t between the handles, and connected thereto, the slotted or space-plated front end of the beams m, affixed to the front bar, u., substantially as described, as and for the purposes herein set forth.

3. Connecting the seeder to the plow-frame by means of the hinged straps .fr and bar z and pin gy, as described.

` This specification signed'this 10th day of March, 1866.

DANIEL VVILDE.

Witnesses:

S. L. GORBIN, ALVIN TUTTLE. 

